DAVID BROOKS IN ATLANTIC MONTHLY QUESTIONS MERITOCRACY IN UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS, etc.

 I have only read a short summary of the Brooks article in Newser, but was shocked.  Here is my response as I posted it on Newser.  In some ways my response is a short summary of my forthcoming book.  Hugh Murray

What a crock! Merit was abandoned around 1965 when leaders of the EEOC pushed the unproven theory that all large groups are equally adept in all fields. From this absurd assumption, if all groups were not equally represented in all fields, that proved racial discrimination. This theory was the underlying justification for the trendy phrase, system racism. A few years later, Eleanore Holmes Norton decided anything that interfered with minority hiring should be abolished. So, no more info permitted don previous arrests, etc. when applying for jobs or univ. or whatever. And exams where minorities did poorly were condemned as discriminatory, and she fought to ban them, EVEN WHEN THEY WERE THE BEST PREDICTORS OF HOW APPLICANTS MIGHT DO IN UNIV OR CERTAIN JOBS. By Reagan's time, tests were still given, but graded on racial curbs, to boost scores of minorities and demote those of white men. For decades anti-white male propaganda has spewed from the media, ever more govt. agencies, and universities. DEI is the most recent branding of this anti-white racism. DEI is how a Black woman became Pres. of Harvard who had written not a great deal, and some of which was plagiarized. To the liberals, merit is the enemy. This is why we spenc so much on each pupil in public schools, and they often graduate and have trouble reading, doing math, and some now cannot write their own names.

The author of the donnyBrooks in the Atlantic will see his case sink, even by the torpedoes of many who have already responded to it on the Newser site.